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CDC study examines lost work productivity, property damage from car crashes, expenditures for liver cirrhosis and other alcohol-associated medical problems.

Increasing numbers of 11-and-12-year-olds are getting their recommended vaccines, but improvement is still needed, a CDC study shows.

The proportion of children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has risen from 6.9% to 9% in the past decade, a CDC study shows.

Chickenpox deaths in the U.S. have been nearly eliminated thanks to widespread use of the varicella vaccine, according to a new CDC study.

ATLANTA (AP) -- About one in 13 U.S. swine flu deaths have been children and most of the kids have been of school age, the federal government said Thursday in its first study of the new flu's youngest victims....

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Only a small percentage of Americans have received recommended vaccines for preventable infectious diseases, according to new data from the CDC.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Kentucky and West Virginia - where people traditionally smoke the most - have the highest death rates from smoking, a new federal study has found.

Rounding out the 10 states with the highest average annual smoking death rates were Nevada, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Indiana and Missouri....

ATLANTA (AP) -- People who sleep fewer than six hours a night - or more than nine - are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irregular sleep and big bellies....